Film, form, and culture

Kolker, Robert P.

doi:10.1145/231738.232621

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“…The application of perceptual features addresses the difficulty in modeling concepts faced by the techniques of using texture descriptors. The limited number of concepts characterized by words may result in inadequately expressing the needs of film editors/makers who usually rely on artistic themes derived from the filmmaker's perception garnered through a multitude of observed phenomena [38].…”

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A New Learning Algorithm for the Fusion of Adaptive Audio–Visual Features for the Retrieval and Classification of Movie Clips

Muneesawang

Guan

Amin

2008

J Sign Process Syst Sign Image Video Technol

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This paper presents a new learning algorithm for audiovisual fusion and demonstrates its application to video classification for film database. The proposed system utilized perceptual features for content characterization of movie clips. These features are extracted from different modalities and fused through a machine learning process. More specifically, in order to capture the spatio-temporal information, an adaptive video indexing is adopted to extract visual feature, and the statistical model based on Laplacian mixture are utilized to extract audio feature. These features are fused at the late fusion stage and input to a support vector machine (SVM) to learn semantic concepts from a given video database. Based on our experimental results, the proposed system implementing the SVM-based fusion technique achieves high classification accuracy when applied to a large volume database containing Hollywood movies.

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A New Learning Algorithm for the Fusion of Adaptive Audio–Visual Features for the Retrieval and Classification of Movie Clips

Muneesawang

Guan

Amin

2008

J Sign Process Syst Sign Image Video Technol

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“…Several studies have documented that narrative forms, including fi lm, can shape our perceptions (cf. Kolker 1999 ). For instance, in terms of social issues, Wilson et al ( 1992 ) found that media exposure to social ills, such as rape, helps to educate and change viewers' attitudes.…”

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“…Regardless of the content, a fi lm has the power to shape perceptions of moviegoers on a range of subjects from love and marriage to the work of the government (cf. Franklin 2006 ;Kolker 1999 ;Ortega-Liston 2000 ;Riggle, Ellis, and Crawford 1996 ). A frequent subject on the silver screen is the government, yet our understanding of its infl uence is limited.…”

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Argo and Zero Dark Thirty: Film, Government, and Audiences

Pautz

2014

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With the prevalence and accessibility of fi lm today, we must wonder how fi lm aff ects its audience. In particular, how does fi lm infl uence an audience's perceptions of the government? Regardless of the content, research demonstrates that fi lm has the power to shape perceptions of its moviegoers on a range of subjects. In this study, two recent fi lms, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty , were chosen as case studies to explore how Hollywood portrays the intelligence community in fi lm and shapes opinions about the government more broadly. This research found that about 25% of viewers of the two fi lms changed their opinion about the government after watching one of the movies. Additionally, many of those changes are refl ected in an improvement in the sentiments about the government and its institutions. This exploratory research provokes interesting discussions about the ability of fi lm to infl uence the perceptions of an audience. F ilm has proven its endurance as arguably the most accessible form of art for Americans. Movies invite audiences to engage in stories that range from the terrifying to the futuristic to the dramatization of signifi cant events in history. Watching a movie occupies our senses more than any other form of art, particularly when we experience it at the local Cineplex. Regardless of the content, a fi lm has the power to shape perceptions of moviegoers on a range of subjects from love and marriage to the work of the government (cf. Franklin 2006 ;Kolker 1999 ;Ortega-Liston 2000 ;Riggle, Ellis, and Crawford 1996 ). A frequent subject on the silver screen is the government, yet our understanding of its infl uence is limited. Recent scholarship examined the portrayal of the government in aggregate in the movies and found that it is a common subject in fi lms (cf. Pautz and Roselle 2010 ; Pautz and Warnement 2013 ). However, this research does not explore the infl uence of a particular fi lm on an individual viewer. Indeed, if fi lm has such a signifi cant infl uence on an audience, what is that infl uence? With regard to the government on the silver screen, does this infl uence improve an audience's perspective, keep it the same, or make it worse? These were the questions guiding this research.With its prevalence and accessibility today, how does fi lm aff ect an audience's perceptions of the government? Two recent fi lms, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty , were chosen as case studies to explore how Hollywood portrays the intelligence community and infl uences opinions about the government more generally. This narrowed focus allowed us to investigate how signifi cant events in US history-the extraction of Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis and the hunt for Osama bin Laden-are portrayed in fi lm and what, if any, infl uence these fi lms had on audience perceptions about these events and the government more generally. Both fi lms were contenders for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award for Best Picture (i.e., the Oscar) in 2013; Argo won, arguably, the fi lm industry's most sough...

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“…Narrative forms influence the perceptions of individuals on a host of subjects (cf. Kolker 1999). 5 In particular, movies can influence perceptions and behaviors about political culture, thus influencing political socialization (Franklin 2006, 6;Heidelberg and Schultz 2010, 59) and government more generally (Ortega-Liston 2000).…”

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Government on the Silver Screen: Contemporary American Cinema's Depiction of Bureaucrats, Police Officers, and Soldiers

Pautz

Warnement

2013

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Movies continue to be the most accessible art form to Americans and that reach allows films to have a tremendous effect on moviegoers. With more than a billion movie tickets sold annually in the United States, the ability of movies to influence the perceptions of moviegoers is pronounced. Frequently, the government is part of those depictions. Although film is routinely studied in a host of disciplines, a focus on the portrayal of government generally and government officials more specifically, remains elusive. Instead of using a case-study approach, we examine recent, popular films to investigate how government is portrayed generally and how individual governmental characters are depicted. For our sample, we use the top-10 box office grossing films from 2000 to 2009 to assess how government is depicted in the films most likely seen by the majority of movie-watching Americans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that films generally have a mixed view of government with more negative depictions than positive. However, in examining bureaucrats, police officers, soldiers, and politicians, we found a much more positive depiction of these individual government characters. Americans may view government negatively, but in film they see positive depictions of individual civil servants.

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Film, form, and culture

Cited by 11 publications

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A New Learning Algorithm for the Fusion of Adaptive Audio–Visual Features for the Retrieval and Classification of Movie Clips

A New Learning Algorithm for the Fusion of Adaptive Audio–Visual Features for the Retrieval and Classification of Movie Clips

Argo and Zero Dark Thirty: Film, Government, and Audiences

Government on the Silver Screen: Contemporary American Cinema's Depiction of Bureaucrats, Police Officers, and Soldiers

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